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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey(2012)

PG-13
| 2h 49min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action
3.7/5 (with 8,448 votes)

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain(2023)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

When three friends who live together realize that they don't like their life trajectory, they set off to find a gold treasure that is rumored to be buried in the nearby mountain.

Directed by Paul Briganti - With Conan O'Brien, Bowen Yang, X Mayo, Megan Stalter, John Goodman, Martin Herlihy, ...

Tomb Invader(2018)

2.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Archaeologist Alabama Channing sets off to uncover the ancient tomb of Quin Shi Haung, which promises riches and answers to family mysteries.

Directed by James Thomas

The Grave(1996)

1h 30min | Crime, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.

The Princess and the Pirate(1944)

NR
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

Princess Margaret is travelling incognito to elope with her true love instead of marrying the man her father has betrothed her to. On the high seas, her ship is attacked by pirates who know her identity and plan to kidnap her and hold her for a king's ransom.

Lust in the Dust(1985)

1h 24min | Comedy, Western
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

A group of unscrupulous characters seek buried treasure in the old west.

Directed by Paul Bartel - With Divine, Lainie Kazan

Incident at Phantom Hill(1966)

NR
| 1h 28min | Western
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

At the end of the Civil War, a major shipment of gold has been stolen and buried in the desert. Only one man knows the whereabouts of gold and the army sends captain Matt Martin to arrest him and come back with the gold. Martin, his prisoner and a handful of men enter Indian territory in search of the precious cargo. The Apaches, outlaws and storms will make it not too easy.

Directed by Earl Bellamy - With Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea

Treasure of Matecumbe(1976)

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.

Florentina Hubaldo, CTE(2012)

6h 7min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Florentina Hubaldo keeps repeating her story, orally, akin to a mantra, a meditation and a prayer; her way of remembering; her means of maintaining hope for survival and redemption; fighting with what’s left of her memory. She lives and exist in a place and a condition where history, her story, is being systematically being obliterated. Two gold hunters endlessly dig the ground with their shovels and hoes for the proverbial treasure that will emancipate them. A father sadly waits for the death of her fragile daughter.

The Real Macaw(1998)

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

An ancient talking macaw named Mac becomes the saving grace for an elderly man threatened with a nursing home, when it is discovered that the talking bird knows the whereabouts of a buried treasure from its days with a pirate. His grandson decides to go off on the hunt only to discover that a resort now exists where the treasure is buried.

Zvenigora(1928)

1h 30min | Drama, Fantasy, History, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The momentous film stars Mykola Nademskyi as the grandfather of Tymish (Semen Svashenko), whom he alerts to secret treasure buried in the mountains of Zvenygora – Treasure that rightfully belongs to his homeland. The film wonderfully blends both lyricism and politics and uses its central construct to build a montage praising Ukrainian industrialization, attacking the bourgeoisie, celebrating the beauty of the Ukrainian steppe and retelling ancient folklore. Said Sergei Eisenstein of the film, "As the lights went on, we felt that we had just witnessed a memorable event in the development of the cinema".

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - With Semen Svashenko, Aleksandr Podorozhny, Vladimir Uralsky

Heir Bear(1953)

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Barney inherited a map to treasure buried in his backyard, but his digging doesn't square with the plans of the gopher sleeping on the treasure.

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Devil's Dynamite(1987)

1h 30min | Action, Horror, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

After spending ten years in prison Steven Cox has recently been released and his former colleagues will do anything to find out where he stashed his fortune. His former mistress now rules the underworld and she plays the various fractions against each other to maintain her power. One of the local drug lords has hired vampires to protect him and keep his drug smuggling business thriving. The vampires pop up around town as they, along with various other thugs, try to knock off Steven Cox and find the whereabouts to his gold. There is a stranger in town that dresses up like a space age super hero who aligns himself with Steven Cox as they take on together the corrupt underworld. A cut n paste movie that uses footage from The Stunning Gambling (Taiwan) and Giant of Casino (HK).

Bullitt County(2018)

1h 38min | Action, Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.

Terror Island(1920)

NR
| 55min | Adventure, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Inventor Harry Harper travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West. Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.

Sound of Horror(1967)

1h 31min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 4 votes)

When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons.

The Confession(1964)

1h 36min | Drama, Comedy

Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.

The Mine with the Iron Door(1936)

Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.

Directed by David Howard - With Richard Arlen

The Jack of Diamonds(1949)

1h 13min | Drama, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.

Sourdough(1981)

1h 34min | Western, Adventure

A grizzled adventurer seeks a balanced life in the Alaskan wilderness.

Captain Kidd's Treasure(1938)

NR
| 10min | Drama, History
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this short, a modern-day promoter tries to sell a man the idea of searching for Captain Kidd's buried treasure, claiming he has the original map. A flashback reveals that Kidd was known to be a pirate and also to have had a commission from William III at one time, which instructed him to act as a unit of the British Navy. What became of the fabulous treasure Kidd took from the ship "Kedah Merchant".

Gunfight at Dry River(2021)

1h 41min | Western
1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The closing years of the nineteenth century Old West. Dry River tells the story of a Mexican border town ravaged by severe drought, with the only water source controlled by a family of American renegades on the trail for a legend of lost gold. When a Mexican stranger arrives to reclaim his father’s land, a violent confrontation will cause the lives of all to be forever transformed.

Rhythm Round-Up(1945)

NR
| 1h 6min | Music, Western

Arriving in Arizona, the band members discover that the hotel is haunted and that it properly belongs to young Jimmy Benson (Curtis), the nephew of the previous owner. The "ghosts," however, turns out to be a trio of confidence men, Zeke Winslow (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams), Noah Jones (Raymond Hatton) and Slim Jensen Victor Potel, who are hoping to buy the place themselves.

Directed by Vernon Keays

Bengazi(1955)

NR
| 1h 19min | Crime, Drama, Adventure
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An American with a shady past joins with a morally-bankrupt Irishman to find treasure buried by Arabs in a deserted mosque in the Sahara. The situation becomes complicated when they are surrounded by Bedouin bandits.

Loot(2008)

1h 26min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

During WWII, Darrel was stationed in Europe. Andrew was fighting in the Philippines. In the chaos of combat, each stole valuable treasures and hid them overseas before returning to civilian life in America. Sixty years later, back in America, neither man seems remorseful about their war crimes. Both want to recover the treasures they perceive as their own. They don't know each other but they both happen to know Lance, an inventor, used-car salesman, and amateur treasure-hunter, who, against all odds and better judgment, attempts to help them find their lost looted goods.

Directed by Darius Marder

The Forgotten Treasure(2002)

1h 28min | Kids & Family

When a mysterious Frenchman appears in their small village, two gangs of sixth graders are reluctantly united to help find a buried treasure. Can they manage to keep the strife between them at a minimum and locate the booty?

The Goat(2009)

1h 50min | Comedy, Drama

The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold, fall onto the sky and find the twin!" A copy of the same map brings Rumba and Emma to the same place. Rumba is Bulgarian and a passionate treasure-hunter. His wife is American and studies Bulgarian folklore as a way to fight globalization. Rumba wants to buy Jonah's property so he can find the treasure.

Directed by Georgi Djulgerov - With Ivan Barnev, Krasimir Dokov, Rousy Chanev, Hristo Dimitrov-Hindo, Ivan Dervishev